What We Cannot Know: From Consciousness to the Cosmos, the Cutting Edge of Science Explained by Marcus du Sautoy

What We Cannot Know: From Consciousness to the Cosmos, the Cutting Edge of Science Explained

Marcus du Sautoy

440 pages first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction philosophy science challenging informative slow-paced

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Britain’s most famous mathematician takes us to the edge of knowledge to show us what we cannot know.Is the universe infinite?Do we know what happened before the Big Bang?Where is human consciousness located in the brain?And are there more undisco...

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